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Bo Peng

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Bo Peng, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Email

bo.peng@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor
Medicine - Epidemiology & Population Science
ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ of Medicine
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States

Education

MS from University of Houston
06/2001 - Houston, Texas, United States
PhD from Rice University
06/2006 - Houston, Texas, United States

Professional Statement

Dr. Peng’s specialties include genetic simulations, epidemiological association analysis, and bioinformatic and next-generation sequencing data analysis. As an open-source advocate and an experienced software developer, he is the author of multiple large-scale software projects, including simuPOP, Variant Tools, and SoS Polyglot Notebook and Workflow System, and is battling COVID-19 with his new covid19-outbreak-simulator.

Websites

Selected Publications

  • Wang G, Peng B.. " " PLoS Comput Biol.. 2019 ;
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  • Peng B, Leong MC, Chen HS, Rotunno M, Brignole KR, Clarke J, Mechanic LE.. " " Bioinformatics. 2019 ;
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  • Peng B, Wang G, Ma J, Leong MC, Wakefield C, Melott J, Chiu Y, Du D, Weinstein JN. " " Bioinformatics. 2018 ;
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  • Peng B, Chen HS, Mechanic LE, Racine B, Clarke J, Gillanders E, Feuer EJ. " " Genet Epidemiol.. 2015 ;
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Projects

Script of Script
(08/2016 - present)
Polyglot Notebook and Workflow System that provide an environment for both interactive data analysis and batch data processing.
Variant Tools
(05/2010 - present)
Software tool for the manipulation, annotation, selection, and analysis of variants in the context of next-gen sequencing analysis
Genetic Simulation Resources
NCI (06/2012 - present)
Genetic Simulation Resources (GSR) is a website provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that aims to help researchers compare and choose the appropriate simulation tools for their studies.

Funding

Computational tools for sequence-based large-scale epidemiology studies
#R01HG008972
(06/14/2016 - 03/31/2021)
Grant funding from NIGRI
Genetic simulation software registration & discovery system
National Cancer Institute

Skills

Bioinformatics
Genetic Epidemiology
Genetic Simulations

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